10-letter words containing m, i, n, a
- journalism — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kalimantan — Indonesian name of Borneo, especially referring to the southern, or Indonesian, part.
- kantianism — the philosophy of Kant, who held that the content of knowledge comes a posteriori from sense perception, but that its form is determined by a priori categories of the mind: he also declared that God, freedom, and immortality, although they cannot be proved or disproved, are necessary postulates of a rational morality
- karamanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- ketonaemia — an excess of ketone bodies in the blood
- kilmarnock — Official name Kilmarnock and Loudon. an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in SW Scotland.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kuomintang — the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949, founded chiefly by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and led from 1925 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek; the dominant party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1949.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake ilmen — a lake in NW Russia, in the Novgorod Region: drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Area: between 780 sq km (300 sq miles) and 2200 sq km (850 sq miles), according to the season
- lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laminarian — belonging or relating to the laminaria or to the zone where they grow, which is between two and ten fathoms deep
- laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- laminating — Present participle of laminate.
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- landmining — the laying of landmines
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- liebermann — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1847–1935, German painter and etcher.
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind